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I wish Alexander and the rest of the Multi team all the best at OpenAI. I'm saddened by the loss of what I consider the best remote pair programming app around (if Mac-only is acceptable). Other than Tuple.app, are there any strong competitors? I tried Datadog's CoScreen early on, and the amount of chrome it added to windows made things a little janky (perhaps it's better now).

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It might be somewhat different in that it's only for programming, but Zed is a "multiplayer code editor" with channels, notes, video chat, screen sharing etc.

https://zed.dev/

My team and I use https://pop.com/ daily! It's fully cross-platform and lightweight (no chrome added to windows), and it's absolutely viable to say "can I take control" and type in someone else's IDE halfway across the world in real-time. Once a co-worker had their laptop die while traveling, so they had a family member log into their home desktop, start up Pop, and remoted in from their spouse's laptop, doing all the dev work they needed from a continent away. There are some minor glitches, but all in all it's an amazing product!

Funnily enough I tried Tuple.app literally last week for the first time and the experience was incredible. I love their "privacy veil" feature. Good job if anyone's looking for a replacement that seems like the best alternative to Multi app.

No love for jetbrains pairing solution inside idea?

I want to love it so badly, and it's fine if you're comparing it to e.g. google docs. But if you're comparing it to running the ide locally it's sadly still not quite there.

A lot of actions are still not supported remotely, syntax doesn't get reinterpreted properly unless you do manual workarounds like switching between files, etc. It's getting better and better, though.

what's wrong with Tuple? Multi looks like the exact same product.

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